Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 4
3.19466
India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Printed text.
Printed text.
Digitized
Original
36.8 cm W x 55 cm H (Item)
29.4 cm W x 46.1 cm H (Platemark or image size)
29.4 cm W x 46.1 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
July 1944
Sheet 4 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations depict various over-lapping leaf silhouettes in a column on the left. Glossary of terms in 2 sections describe the leaves in a column on the right. Descriptive text adhered to the board includes details of leaf margins and veins, and an unillustrated section about leaf surface types and characteristics.
Section 1: A LEAF MARGIN IS CALLED:
Leaf margins depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
Leaf veins depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
Section 1: A LEAF MARGIN IS CALLED:
Leaf margins depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- LOBED
- UNDULATE (repand)
- SINUATE
- CRENATE
- CRENULATE
- DENTATE
- DENTICULATE
- SERRATE
- SERRULATE
- DOUBLY-SERRATE
- ENTIRE
- REVOLUTE
Leaf veins depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- PARALLEL
- PINNATE
- PALMATE
- DICHOTOMOUS
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, no. 7, p. 28.
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 1
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 2
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 3
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 2
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 3
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